Consistent Hitters in Fantasy Baseball

Finding consistently good hitters makes fantasy baseball much easier. With pitching, you can stream daily and pick up an extra win and some more strikeouts from just about anywhere. With hitting, your lineup rarely fluctuates and it's important to feel confident in the players you own. Let's look at which players have given us 3 months of consistent play, who has gotten better with each month, and who has been on a downward trend since the end of April.

To be considered consistent, we narrowed down the hitters that stayed with 10 points (either way) of the previous months total. Goldschmidt was the best April player that did not fall off between months, however, he is also on the downward trend list with Carpenter, Aybar, & Desmond. Rizzo, McGehee, Zunino & Owings made the upward trend list.

*We have sorted this list by the biggest differential between April and JuneMiguel Cabrera and Edwin Encarnacion had the greatest increase in fantasy points between April and May. Billy Hamilton and Adam LaRoche led between May and June. Lucroy is the only player in baseball to have his fantasy points increase by at least 20 points between April-May & May-June. Seager, Davis, and Frazier were the only players with a 15 point jump from month to month. Jones, Markakis, Jeter, Cabrera and Rizzo with 10+ in each month.

*We have sorted this list by the biggest differential between April and June
Thanks to injuries, Jose Abreu and LaRoche had the biggest drop in fantasy points between April and May. Albert Pujols did play in May, but a .234 batting average led to just 9 RBI, even with 5 HR! Yasiel Puig couldn't repeat a ridiculous month of May and totaled less than half of his May points in June. Nelson Cruz and Josh Donaldson also struggled to replicate a stellar month of May. As proven in the consistency list, being a part of this group is not necessary a bad thing. Stanton is actually our #1 ranked fantasy player overall.

Molina has been the worst of the bunch seeing his point total decrease by at least 25 points in each month. Ramirez is the only other to lose at least 20 points between months. Blackmon, Kendrick and Upton make the cut at -15 each month. Gonzalez, Holliday, Suzuki and Lawrie join at -10 points per month.